focusing on the production of ebooks.

In January 2005, Project Gutenberg had 15,000 ebooks. eBook
#15000 was "The Life of Reason" (1906), by George Santayana.

What about languages? There were ebooks in 25 languages in
February 2004, and in 42 languages in July 2005, including
Sanskrit and the Mayan languages. The seven top languages -
with more than 50 books - were English (with 14,548 ebooks on
July 27, 2005), French (577 ebooks), German (349 ebooks),
Finnish (218 ebooks), Dutch (130 ebooks), Spanish (103 ebooks),
and Chinese (69 ebooks). There were ebooks in 50 languages in
December 2006. The ten top languages were English (with 17,377
books on December 16, 2006), French (966 books), German (412
books), Finnish (344 books), Dutch (244 books), Spanish (140
books), Italian (102 books), Chinese (69 books), Portuguese (68
books), and Tagalog (51 books).

Project Gutenberg was also spreading worldwide.

In July 2005, Project Gutenberg Australia (launched in 2001)
had 500 ebooks.

In Europe, Project Rastko, based in Belgrade, Serbia, launched
Distributed Proofreaders Europe (DP Europe) in December 2003
and Project Gutenberg Europe (PG Europe) in January 2004.
Project Gutenberg Europe released its first 100 ebooks in June
2005. These books were in several languages, as a reflection of
European linguistic diversity, with 100 languages planned for
the long term.

New teams were working on launching Project Gutenberg Canada,
Project Gutenberg Portugal and Project Gutenberg Philippines.

In December 2006, Project Gutenberg had 20,000 ebooks. eBook
#20000 was the audiobook of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
Sea" (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, 1869), by Jules Verne,
in its English version.

If 32 years were necessary to digitize the first 10,000 books -
between July 1971 and October 2003 -, 3 years and 2 months were
necessary to digitize the following 10,000 books - between
October 2003 and December 2006.

The section Project Gutenberg PrePrints was set up in January
2006 to collect items submitted to Project Gutenberg which were
interesting enough to be available online, but not ready yet to
be added to the main Project Gutenberg collections, the reason
being missing data, low-quality files, formats which were not
handy, etc. This new section had 379 files in December 2006.

# Tens of thousands of ebooks

In December 2006, Mike Cook launched Project Gutenberg News as
"the news portal for gutenberg.org",